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21	A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah Ricks, Nathaniel R. 03 July 2007 (has links) (PDF) Between 1830 and 1844, the Mormons slightly shifted their position on African-American slavery, but maintained the middle ground on the issue overall. When Mormons began gathering to Utah in 1847, Southern converts brought their black slaves with them to the Great Basin. In 1852 the first Utah Territorial legislature passed “An Act in Relation to Service" that legalized slavery in Utah. This action was prompted primarily by the need to regulate slavery and contextualize its practice within the Mormon belief system. Ironically, had Congress known of Utah's slave population, it may have never granted Utah the power to legislate on slavery. During the debates over the Compromise of 1850, which series of acts created Utah Territory without restriction on slavery, Utah lobbyist John M. Bernhisel hid Utah slavery from members of Congress. Several years later, when Utah's laws were under review by Congressional committees, the public announcement of polygamy overshadowed information that betrayed slavery's practice in Utah. The fact that slavery's practice in Utah was never widely known, especially by members of Congress, delayed for nearly four years the final sectional crisis that would culminate in civil war. Utah may have been a peculiar place for the “peculiar institution" of slavery, but its legalization in the territory, and Congress' failure to acknowledge it, provide a compelling case study of popular sovereignty in action in the antebellum West. slavery Utah Joseph Smith Mormonism Civil War antebellum Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act polygamy Bernhisel peculiar institution popular sovereignty Deseret History
22	The Life of Amos Milton Musser Brooks, Karl 01 January 1961 (has links) (PDF) For more than half a century Amos Milton Musser was a conspicuous figure in the social, religious, and business life of Utah.Amos Milton Musser, the second son and fourth child of Samuel and Anna Barr Musser, was born in Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1830. When he was four years old, his father died. after three years of widowhood, his mother remarried, but her husband, Abraham Bitner, soon died, leaving her with two additional children.During her second widowhood, times were so hard that Mrs. Bitner had to ask for help in supporting her children. John Neff, the husband of her sister Mary, accepted the responsibility of guardianship for them. It was through him that the family became affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846. The families went on to Utah, but Amos Milton chose to remain behind and work. During the summer of 1851 he joined his mother in Salt Lake City, having been baptized into the Church at Kanesville before starting across the plains. A. Milton Musser Missions India History 19th century Tithes Mormon Church Deseret Telegraph Company Mormons Polygamy Court cases History Mormon Studies
23	A Comparative Study of the Teaching Methods of the LDS and Non-LDS Sunday School Movements in the United States Prior to 1900 Knighton, Ronald Lewis 01 May 1968 (has links) (PDF) Sunday schools were an important part of the development of religious education in the United States and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (L.D.S. Church). It was the purpose of this study (1) to analyze the teaching methods of both the L.D.S. and non-L.D.S. Sunday school movements in the United States prior to 1900; and (2) to compare the teaching methods used by these Sunday school developments and determine similarities and differences. Deseret Sunday School Union Sunday schools Religious education Curricula Teaching methods Mormon Church Teaching Comparative Methodologies and Theories Mormon Studies
24	An Analysis of the Teaching Aids Provided for Sunday School Teachers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Whitehead, Kevin Douglas 04 January 2010 (has links) (PDF) Teaching is, and always has been, important in the work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As one of the auxiliaries of the Church, the Sunday School has made an ongoing effort to provide effective teaching aids for its teachers in order to improve instruction in the Church. This work documents and examines change in principles of gospel teaching over the course of a century. By comparing teaching aids provided for Gospel Doctrine teachers in different time periods with guidelines found in the scriptures and words of modern prophets this work seeks to increase understanding of themes and fundamentals of inspired teaching in the Church. Teaching Principles Sunday School training teaching aids Gospel Doctrine Deseret Sunday School Union curriculum teacher training effective Robert Raikes teacher improvement education instruction religious education Parents'Class David O. McKay Russell M. Nelson theory History of Christianity

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